I just saw their commercial yesterday:
Bud Light Seltzer
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Coming soon to a Walmart near you-Michelob Ultra Seltzer, Shock Top Seltzer, Goose Island IPA Seltzer...
4 flavors to choose from tooI just saw their commercial yesterday:
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I wonder if they are just repackaging the Natty Light Seltzer and adding a premium to it.
jack13
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Love this observation:
...Budweiser is a beer. Light is an adjective describing what kind of beer. Seltzer is … not beer. “Bud Light Seltzer” is like selling “Smoked Gouda Folding Chairs.”
...Budweiser is a beer. Light is an adjective describing what kind of beer. Seltzer is … not beer. “Bud Light Seltzer” is like selling “Smoked Gouda Folding Chairs.”
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but legally, hard seltzer is beer....
27 CFR 25.11 defines beer as a fermented beverage containing 0.5 or more percent of alcohol by volume, brewed or produced from malt or from any substitute for malt.
27 CFR 25.15 lists glucose and sugar as substitutes for malt in the production of beer...
jack13
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Legal definitions can be so strange. No malt? No hops? Not beer.
The alcohol in beer comes from the sugars extracted during the mash. Therefore, according to bureaucratic logic, anything fermented from sugar, which isn’t wine or spirits, is “beer”.
Lewis Carroll would be proud...
Lewis Carroll would be proud...
jack13
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hahaha.
But why even exclude wine like that? It would be equally fitting to call everything that meets that definition "wine".
Why not this instead?:
27 CFR 25.11 defines wine as a fermented beverage containing 0.5 or more percent of alcohol by volume, brewed or produced from grapes or from any substitute for grapes.
That would make Bud Light Seltzer a wine.
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Are all these 'seltzers' really all that different from Zima?
It's regrettable how far we've fallen from the Reinheitsgebot. I blame the effing lawyers.
jack13
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From what I can tell, no, just more choices in flavoring.
Big difference... IIRC, Zima was dry hopped with turtle penises. These 'seltzers' aren't hopped at all.
What? You mean that no pixie dust or unicorn farts are involved in the process?
Coming soon to a Walmart near you-Michelob Ultra Seltzer, Shock Top Seltzer, Goose Island IPA Seltzer...
And one to rule them all!
beat me to it....
If you've never pounded a six pack of Zima and ran through the mall wearing your mini skirt as tube top
Great smokesplaination.
Would need AZ to edumacate us again, but I think sugar is a malt substitute hence Beer.
Fruit juice is considered wine and many states classify ciders as wine. Here in Commifornia, breweries cant serve cider without an additional wine license.
Yes, totally different. Zima was "classy" kinda like wine coolers.
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Zima was "classy"?
More like "the answer to a question nobody ever asked"...
More like "the answer to a question nobody ever asked"...
Yea, like wine coolers and Boons farm. Ya know, you had it on hand when you thought "classy" girls would be at the party.Zima was "classy"?
hahahahaha!
Cheers! (Almost sprayed my monitor array with neipa! (decidedly not a good thing)
Cheers! (Almost sprayed my monitor array with neipa! (decidedly not a good thing
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No sir. Never had reason to think there might be any "classy" girls at the party.
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